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One Night in Millstreet

Andrew Gallimore, 2023

One Night in Millstreet is the story of Ireland in 1995, a snapshot of a country told through a high-stakes prize fight in Millstreet, Cork between the then-unknown underdog Steve ‘The Celtic Warrior ’Collins and the larger-than-life champion Chris ‘Simply…

Ooops 2: The Adventure Continues

Sean McCormack,
Toby Genkel, 85 minutes, 2020

Life in an Ark with 50,000 others has many dangers: icebergs, unwelcome visitors, storms, woodworm and a very fragile truce between carnivores and herbivores. All hopes are pinned on a dove dispatched into the wild in search of land. The…

Operator

Jonathan Hughes, 85 minutes, 2020

A self-obsessed call centre worker deals with personal heartbreak, as the world crumbles around him… due to a zombie apocalypse.

Ordinary Decent Criminal

Thaddeus O'Sullivan , 100 minutes, 2000

The life of infamous Dublin gangster Martin Cahill had already been given the biopic treatment in John Boorman’s 1998 The General; here Thaddeus O’Sullivan turns Cahill into the fictional Michael Lynch (Kevin Spacey) and transforms the story into a piece…

Ordinary Love

Lisa Barros D'Sa
Glenn Leyburn, 91 minutes, 2019

This film was released on 6th December 2019 and is no longer screening. Retired Belfast couple Joan (Lesley Manville) and Tom (Liam Neeson) have, over the years, learned to live with the death of their teenage daughter. Their existence is…

The Other Lamb

Malgorzata Szumowska, 97 minutes, 2019

Life in her cloistered, self-sufficient commune is the only life Selah has ever known. She has grown up cut off from modern society in a remote forest commune with a band of young women who are presided over by a…

The Other Side of Sleep

Rebecca Daly, 93 minutes, 2011

Following a series of stylised and distinctive shorts, director Rebecca Daly here makes her feature debut with this dreamlike vision of an isolated and paranoid young girl. Transformed by past traumas into a chronic sleepwalker, Arlene Kelly’s (Antonia Campbell-Hughes) fragile…

Ouch!

Ken Wardrop, 93 minutes, 2004

A funny and touching examination of life on either side of a foreskin divide. Also available as part of Wardrop's Shorts, a programme of five shorts directed by Ken Wardrop and produced by Andrew Freedman.

Our Boys

Cathal Black, 42 minutes, 1981

Politically and technically bold, this short docu-drama from Cathal Black fuses dramatisation, interviews, and archive footage in an exposé of the culture of fear and brutality that defined the regime in educational institutions run by the Christian Brothers. The narrative…

Our House

Peter Young, 88, 2026

A gripping and assured feature debut from writer-director Peter Young, developed through Northern Ireland Screen’s New Talent Programme, Our House is a tightly wound family thriller that channels simmering resentment into nerve-shredding suspense. Anchored by an outstanding ensemble of emerging…

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